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MIKE BATISTICK (1975 - ) |
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Nationality: USA Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Creative Artists Agency NY |
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Plays by Mike Batistick |
Bodega Lung Fat | ||
| 1st Produced: | reading at New York's Public Theatre | 2003 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #95823 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | first fully-staged production, Hackney Empire Studio, 2009 | |||||
Synopsis: | In a row of stores in Brooklyn there's a Chinese restaurant called Lung Fat next to a shop selling alcohol, candy and sandwiches that calls itself a bodega. Two glazed frames on the set suggest we must be outside the shop fronts but the behaviour of their owners, sitting on plastic beer crates, make it seem much more like their back entrances. These are Chinese Charlie (or is he Vietnamese? his neighbour calls him a Gook) and Wheelchair, so called because he damaged his back when little and so spent time in a wheelchair, the Latino Spic who owns the bodega. They are joined by Sampson, who has known Wheelchair since they were kids when his mother used to help the young invalid. They are an ill-assorted trio who are joined by a strange outsider from the South side, a Hassidic Jew called Menachem, and later by a young woman in a NY Police cap who appears to be a meter maid and Sampson's girlfriend. | |||||
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Castration Anxiety | ||
| 1st Produced: | Ars Nova, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #69862 | |||
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Genre: | short play One Act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | part of The Wikipedia Plays is a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through 17 related entries. The press materials describe it thusly: "In this brave new world of instant gratification where the internet can live in your pocket, one group of writers has created a mini-marathon of short plays that surf the wikipedia wave through seventeen related entries." The plays and playwrights are: Mike Batistick (Castration Anxiety), Evan Cabnet (Prokop the Great), Ron Fitzgerald (Turbulent), Liz Flahive (Bohemia), Sam Forman (Fetish), Etan Frankel (The Defenestration of Prague), Kyle Jarrow (Troposphere), Nick Jones (Global Warming), Barry Levey (Yale Law School), Carly Mensch (Democracy), Elizabeth Meriwether (Particle Board), Lin-Manuel Miranda (Golf Ball), Rachel Shukert (Stiletto Heels), Mat Smart (Weather Forecasting), Aurin Squire (Uncertainties), Adam Szymkowicz (Bill Clinton) and Beau Willimon (Wooden). The Wikipedia Plays are directed by Evan Cabnet, Michael Goldfried, Maria Goyanes, Meredith McDonough, Shira Milikowsky and Moritz von Stuelpnagel. | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Chicken | ||
| 1st Produced: | Studio Dante, NY | 2007 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #62855 | |||
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Genre: | full length Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 4 | Female | 2 | ||
Parts other: | 6 actors | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | Wendell's wife, Lina, is pregnant. His wayward best friend, Floyd, sleeps nightly on their couch. And as if things aren't stressful enough, he's under constant pressure to "father" his messed-up neighbors in the Bronx. In an effort to get some money together, Wendell takes in a rooster to train for an illegal cockfight. As they discover that training a bird for a death match in Washington Heights is not for the faint of heart, this dysfunctional family comes to blows before the fight ever takes place. In this devilish comedy, playwright Mike Batistick investigates power, community and loss, and searches for grace in the most unlikely places. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Flag | ||
| 1st Produced: | Hangar Theatre, Ithaca, New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130771 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
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Gail | ||
| 1st Produced: | Working Theatre, New York | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130772 | |||
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Genre: | Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Manbaby | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #82109 | |||
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Genre: | One act | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | n/a | |||||
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Ponies | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2003 | |||||
Company: | Rising Phoenix Repertory | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2005 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #41575 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
Parts other: | voice | |||||
Notes: | Ponies was given its first workshop reading by the LAByrinth Theater Company (John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman, co-artistic directors) on June 13, 2002, in Saratoga Springs, New York, as part of the company's annual Summer Intensive. After a workshop production in the 2003 New York International Fringe Festival, it had a run in London in Summer 2004 at the Hen & Chickens Theatre in Islington. It then premiered Off-Broadway at Studio Dante in October 2004. | |||||
Synopsis: | Thousands of miles from his war-torn native Croatia, Drazen spends his days betting on horses at a Lower East Side Off-Track Betting establishment. His friend Ken, a Nigerian no longer welcome in his own country, joins him. Drazen is going to help Ken win at the ponies-and aid him in making payments on his brand new livery cab. Both men quickly discover that no matter what part of the world you come from, America can be a dangerous place. | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Port Authority Throw Down | ||
| 1st Produced: | Culture Project, NY, NY | 2006 | ||||
Company: | Culture Project and The Working Theater | |||||
| 1st Published: | Dramatists Play Service, NY, 2008 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #51038 | |||
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Genre: | full length Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 3 | Female | 1 | ||
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Synopsis: | Pervez is a cab driver. He's also on the run from the FBI. While driving home yesterday, he discovered Bureau agents ransacking his house. Pervez just kept on driving; he knew they were looking for his brother, Nawaz. For the past twenty-four hours, he has been hiding out in his cab outside Port Authority. There, he will meet a Christian missionary and a homeless man, both searching for a connection from a world in which they feel alienated. | |||||
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Urban Legend | ||
| 1st Produced: | Source Festival of Ten Minute Plays | 2008 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #130773 | |||
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Genre: | Ten minuteplay | |||||
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